Quentin Tarantino Shuts Down Critics of His Films: “I’m Not Making Them for You”

Quentin Tarantino isn’t bothered by his critics. The filmmaker, who has previously come under fire for gore and excessive use of the N-word in his movies, directly addressed such complaints during a Sunday (Nov. 20) appearance on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, where he told the host that people who dislike his films should avoid them altogether.

Host Chris Wallace asked his guest, “You talk about being the conductor and the audience being the orchestra. So when people say, ‘Well there’s too much violence in his movies. He uses the N-word too often.’ You say what?” per Variety.

Tarantino replied bluntly, “You should see [something else]. Then see something else. If you have a problem with my movies then they aren’t the movies to go see. Apparently I’m not making them for you.”

The director, whose 2012 Western Django Unchained includes nearly 110 uses of the slur, has been defended by collaborators in the past for his profane screenplays. Jamie Foxx, who starred in Django as the titular role, told Yahoo Entertainment in 2018 that he “understood” why the N-word was so heavily featured in the film.

“Then when Django came around, I understood the text. The N-word was said 100 times, but I understood the text — that’s the way it was back in that time,” Foxx said.

More recently, Pam Grier, who starred in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown in 1997, also stood behind the director’s repeated use of the racial slur. Grier said in a Sirius XM interview last month that Tarantino is often accused of using the N-word too often, but actor Samuel L. Jackson actually improvised many such lines.

Jackson, who also appeared in Jackie Brown as well as Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight, ad-libbed much of his dialogue in Tarantino films, Grier said, per Yahoo News.

“That was Sam’s acting craft doing it,” Grier said of her Jackie Brown costar. “So — and people brought that up. And Quentin says, ‘I don’t know why they do it. I didn’t do it.’ And Sam said, ‘No, I did it. I said it.'”

She explained that Tarantino bears the brunt of the criticism, but people are missing the point if they’re coming after him. Grier explained, “There are people trying to find out, ‘Is there something wrong with the filmmaker?’ Where they never ask him.”

“And Sam did say it in articles, but people don’t read. They don’t read everything. They’re too quick to say,” she said.